XDumb

“XGameStation is a 16-bit video game console designed specifically for both hardware and software hackers. The system outputs video and audio directly to any TV via composite video, and is compatible with PlayStation DualShock controllers. Games are played off custom cartridges that you burn yourself.”

OK… interesting… although why you wouldn’t want to do this in software I don’t know. What’s the upside? But anyway. Reading on, things get more interesting:

“A History of Game Development
Before 1994, the idea of walking into a bookstore and seeing entire shelves of books on real-time graphics and game programming was almost unheard of. The very techniques and sciences driving the games that were already making billions of dollars for the Ataris and Nintendos of the world were still well-guarded secrets. That all changed, however, with the release of Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus by computer scientist Andre LaMothe, and within only a few years, an entirely new genre of technical books had seemingly taken over the world.”

The next paragraphs also all mention LaMothe. Slowly it began to dawn on me. The X in the name was kind of an obvious giveaway. (I get regular XGDC spam to remind me of the association.) This was another Andre LaMothe ego vehicle.